Postpartum depression refers to the obvious depressive symptoms or typical depressive episodes of women during the puerperium, which belongs to postpartum mental syndrome accompanied by postpartum restlessness and postpartum psychosis. The incidence was 15% ~ 30%.

Typical postpartum depression occurs within 6 weeks after delivery, and can recover spontaneously in 3 ~ 6 months, but severe depression can last 1 ~ 2 years, and the recurrence rate of the second pregnancy is 20% ~ 30%. There is no significant difference between its clinical characteristics and other depressive episodes.

To put it bluntly, it is the emotional problems that women will have before and after giving birth, such as low mood, large emotional fluctuation, easy to get emotional and so on.

Then let's go back to the above question first. Why are more and more people suffering from postpartum depression when living conditions are getting better and better?

First of all, let's look at the logical relationship of this problem. It is not that living conditions are getting better and better, but that there will be more and more people with postpartum depression. At least not the main reason. They may be related, but I will explain them in detail from a psychological point of view today.

Living conditions are getting better and better, but mental stress is getting bigger and bigger.

Postpartum depression is the first problem of depression, which is a psychological problem. As mentioned above, the reasons for postpartum depression are partly the physiological reasons of girls during childbirth, and partly the relationship between their emotions and themselves, including their families, and whether the relationship with other husbands or partners during childbirth can be in a comfortable and harmonious state. Whether the family or partner gives enough support, including emotional understanding and sharing his pressure. If family members or husbands don't pay attention to women who have just given birth, it is easy for women to feel lost, thus aggravating postpartum depression.

Another part of mental stress comes from the network or interpersonal relationship.

Our living conditions are getting better and better now, but the temptations we face, all kinds of commercial advertisements and all kinds of information content also have a great influence on our brains. This is also a negative side effect of getting better and better life. The material is getting richer and richer, but the spirit is getting poorer and poorer, and it is becoming more and more impossible to concentrate and impatient, which will also lead to a person's easy feeling of emptiness, which will lead to depression.

If you have relatives or friends with postpartum depression, please be more understanding and tolerant, talk to them more, but don't convince them.